Grow Your Blog Party 2014

Welcome To Grow Your Blog 2014

Welcome to Grow Your Blog – an event created by Vicki Boster at 2 Bags Full to help bloggers connect with others and grow their blogging community!

A Little About Create With Joy

For those who are visiting Create With Joy for the first time – welcome! Create With Joy is an inspirational blog that celebrates creativity in all its facets! It’s a place to make new friends, to meet kindred spirits, to be part of a creative community. It’s a place to share the things that inspire you – the things you’re most passionate about!

Here are some of the things I’m passionate about – and some of the things you’ll discover as you explore my blog! (If you’d like to learn more about a category, just click on the photo!)

Arts & Crafts

I love Art and Crafts of all types. I’m particularly into Paper Crafts. If you enjoy Card-Making, Collage, ATCs, Art Journaling, Altered Art, Mixed Media, Scrapbooking, or participating in Art Challenges, you’ll feel right at home!

Inspiring Books

Are you a reader in search of an inspiring book? Are you an author in search of an authentic review? I love to read – I love to write – and I love to review inspirational books for readers of all ages!

I invite you to explore my Book Reviews to see what suits your fancy (be sure to check my Sidebar for any current Giveaways I’m hosting!) You’ll find my picks for the Best Books Of 2013 in these posts:

Fabulous Felines

We love animals of all kinds – especially our Fabulous Felines! Legend, Tsunami and our newest family member, Magellan – these are the Maine Coons that call Create With Joy their home!

Scrumptious Recipes

Whether you’re looking for something healthy or something decadent – my husband and I love to share our favorite recipes and cooking tips with you! Come join us as we whip up something delicious!

Creative Community Building

Community-building is important to me. Each week, I offer several opportunities for you to gather with other kindred spirits in the blogging community – to share your creativity – and to inspire one another!

I cordially invite you to join us for:

Inspire Me Monday – Nurture Your Creative Spirit

Wordless Wednesday – Share Your Memories Through Photos

Friendship Friday – Blog Through The Alphabet

Stay In Touch

Thank you for visiting – I’d love to stay in touch! Here are the best ways to do so:

1) Leave a comment so I’ll know you visited and I can get to know you better!

2) Follow my blog and social media accounts and let me know how you’ve connected. I will happily reciprocate!

Thank you so much for stopping by, dear Dawn!
Magellan is growing SO fast and simultaneously mesmerizing and terrorizing the household with his wild kitten ways!
In addition to breaking my keyboard, he has now broken my touch lamp… perhaps my husband was right – he really is a little Typhoon!
(But – when he calms down – he is SUCH a love!)

Thank you SO very much, LuAnn, for your kind words and endorsement!
You are such a great source of encouragement too!
I hope you are having a fabulous and productive Blogathon!
Hope to catch up with you on one of the chats this weekend! 🙂

Hello, your cats are gorgeous….!
….popping by as part of the ‘grow your blog day’ Its such a lovely way to find super new blogs to read…I am joining along with you too on bloglovin and have liked your facebook page too!
bestest weekend wishes
Daisy j

Just passing through with a wave and stopping at the treat table.
I have neglected my blog this year although I had such wonderful intentions.
Thank you for the great parties and motivating me to post something now and again.

Yes – great eye Brooke! I took that photo several years ago during a visit and was SO enamored by Chihuly’s craftsmanship!
That photo also won me my first blogging photography award at Create With Joy, so it has special significance to me! 🙂

I added all three of your linky parties to my linky party page and your blog to my blogroll!! With that said…thank you for the inspiration! I stopped by yesterday from the GYB hop…but made a note to return and check out your blog over my morning cup of coffee! Thanks for a great morning read. Love your spirit! Looking forward to following and have a joyful year. Stop by: myplvl.blogspot.com with smiles! Val:)

Hi hi..i came via the blog hop and found your lovely blog..
i love the idea of meeting new friends and how some days of the week are been labelled.. I’ve followed you via email and hop to read more of your post soon.. thank you..

I know you … LOL. I’m visiting today from the GYB party. I can’t believe how many people joined this year and it was a lot of fun. I’m just finishing up visiting the last batch of bloggers. I’m glad to see you joined! Hugs – Donna

It’s a pleasure to meet you! You have a lovely blog too! I just left you a comment and I look forward to seeing you at Inspire Me Monday!

I no longer have GFC on my sidebar because Blogger no longer allows that option for WordPress bloggers. Any of my former subscribers can still follow my blog through GFC (because I was originally on blogger and still maintain that account) and I can still follow people through GFC (since I have a blogger account) – but new subscribers have to follow me through Google Plus or one of the many other subscriptions I offer.

I regret the inconvenience because I know Blogger followers love GFC. I did too until Blogger took it away.

My name is Ramona. I answer to Joy (since people who don’t know me naturally make that assumption) – but Joy is actually meant as an adjective, not a noun, in my blog name.

What a pleasure your blog is. (sorry for the bad grammar) —- It was so enjoyable to sit and look around – I am going to come back and look over your book reviews more closely – I am always looking for new authors. I have subscribed to the RSS feed for your blog. Thanks for sharing. Happy hopping!

Wow I love my visit. Didn’t realize that there is so much going on in cyber world. Forgive me for coming to the party at the last minute, But 600 blog reading was a little tasking. I wanted to read and get to know the girls so I did read everyone’s bio. Your my 564 blog and 24 hours left to go. If you like come visit My site contact info is http://ovr_brd@yahoo.com I believe inspiration comes from all facets of life even knowing the great people out there with wisdom and knowledge the do’s and don’ts and even the wonders of life from a personal point of view. I liked you following you on goggle connect and Bloglovin you. hope to see you in the cyber neighborhood I am new to blogging so I don’t have a lot posted because I got side tract with GYB party. Kind of felt it was important to have some one read my silly chatter. I can’t remember a time I didn’t dabble in something creative. I tried a little of everything. But, my new love these days is Card making I just love it.

Welcome To Create With Joy

Create With Joy is an inspirational lifestyle blog that celebrates faith, family and creativity in all its facets! Inside you’ll find crafts to inspire you; recipes to entice you, books and resources to enrich you; and so much more. You’ll also find lots of stories about our precious cats!
Connecting readers from all corners of the world is important to us too! Each week, we build community, empower bloggers to spotlight their creative gifts, and connect kindred spirits through our popular blog parties!
So come inside – look around – make yourself at home. We hope to ignite your passion and infuse creativity into all that you do!

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We Are All Creative

Creativity is not necessarily a special calling or gift from God to the few, it is a natural expression of the fact that we are created in the image of God, who is the Creator. It is His thumbprint on our souls, a part of His signature. The real question is, “How will I live out this fingerprint of God on my life?”

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